Behavioral and Brain Sciences



Short Communication

Colour generalisation by domestic chicks


R. Baddeley a1, D. Osorio a1 and C. D. Jones a1
a1 School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, United Kingdom rjb@biols.sussx.ac.uk d.osorio@sussex.ac.uk c.d.jones@sussex.ac.uk http://www.biols.susx.ac.uk/Home/Roland_Baddeley/

Abstract

We present data on colour generalisation by chicks relevant to Tenenbaum and Griffiths' (T&G) Bayesian framework. Chicks were trained with either one or two colours, and tested for interpolation and extrapolation. T&G's framework predicts an observed lack of extrapolation on the red to yellow line in colour space. A modification incorporating stimulus uncertainty deals with a prototype effect, where an intermediate is preferred to exemplars. After training to complementary colours, chicks do not generalise across an intermediate grey as T&G predict. [Tenenbaum & Griffiths]